70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



^British Social Wasps; an Introduction to tlieir Ana- 

 tomy and Physiology^ Architecture and general Na- 

 tural History, ivith illustrations of the different 

 Species and their Nests!" By Edward Latham 

 Ormerod, M.D. Post 8vo ; 270 pages lellev-press 

 and fourteen Plates, four of them coloured, London : 

 Longmans. 1868. 



The entire history of British Social Wasps is comprised 

 in the works of Mr, Frederick Smith, of the i3ritish Museum, 

 and the late Mr, George Newport : it has been published 

 piecemeal as well as in a collected form. 1 give the dates 

 and titles of these invaluable papers. 



1843. Zoologist, vol. i. p. 161. Descriptions of the British 



Wasps. 



1850. „ vol. viii. p. 2678. On the Abundance or 



Scarcity of the Wasp. 



1851. „ vol. ix. Appendix clxxiii. On the Specific 



Difference of Vespa vulgaris, Linn., and 

 Vespa gerraanica, Panzer. 



1852. „ vol. X. p. 3699. Observations on the Eco- 



nomy of Vespa norvegica and Vespa rufa. 

 1856. J, vol. xiv. p. 5169. On the manner in which 



Vespa rufa builds its nest. 



1858. Catalogtie of the British Fossorial Hymenoptera, For- 



micida? and Vespida;, in the Collection of the British 

 Museum, p. 211 — 22. Section, Social Wasps. 



1859. Zoologist, vol, xvii. p, 64G5. TopselFs History of the 



Wasp. 

 1864. „ On the Abundance of Spring Wasps. 



Mr. Newport's only paper is published in the ' Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of London,' vol, iii, p, 189. 



The Museum Catalogue contains a summary of the whole, 

 and really leaves nothing to be desired : I cannot, however, 

 turn from this brief sketch of the bibliography of British 

 wasps, without a passing allusion to my late talented friend 

 Mr. Ste]dien Stone, of Witney, whose knowledge of the vespal 

 economy has never been equalled by any entomologist living 

 or dead. I never think of this most patient and accurate 



